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Report by Coach Nesworthy (Photos to follow) Six swimmers from my Youth Senior Performance Group qualified for this year’s top-class 3-day Scottish short course championships. Sarah March Sarah “Tigger” Wright Zoe “Zippy” Price Adam Morkot Sam Pashley James “Hamez” Strickland The event was held at the Royal Commonwealth Pool Edinburgh from the 8th to the […]

Hosts’ hearts won, and rivals’ hearts broken! The first weekend in October witnessed swimmers from Team GAW stretched across two nations. A team of 24 swimmers from different squads took on some of the best age group swimmers Scotland has to offer, while Team GAW’s rising national star Ryan Zhao, in the County Team Champs, […]

Gateshead & Whickham ASC Summer Nationals Report 2017 A report by coaches Ken Nesworthy and Paul Armstrong These 2017 Nationals were really exciting for our swimmers. It was the first time at a major National Event for all of GAW’s competing athletes and this championships ran live streaming of the World Championships in Hungary at […]

After a tremendously successful first weekend of competition for GAW, the team descended again on the Aquatic Centre in Sunderland for weekend 2 of the Long Course NER Championships. Adding to the 15 final appearances in weekend 1, the age group squad achieved a further 19 final appearances. New to the finalist list were Paddy […]

The North East Region’s most talented 11-14 yr olds were brought together at Sunderland Aquatic Centre this past weekend for part 1 of the annual Long Course NER Championships. Team GAW are extremely well represented at the championships this year with no fewer then 20 swimmers competing over the two weekends. The 1st weekend witnessed […]

For the first time in 2017, World Para Swimming (Formerly IPC) have introduced a World Series Competition Bringing together some of the biggest competitions on the global calendar, the World Series will take in five countries across Europe and the Americas between March-July. Venues include Copenhagen, Sao Paulo, Sheffield, Indianapolis and Berlin Here the world’s […]

Fantastic performances by all of our swimmers at February’s championships! Below are the details of the 27 swimmers (2016 -29) who won a medal, made a final or finished in the top 10 of a heat declared winner event. As with 2016 we had 5 County champions in at least one event – Ryan Zhao, […]

Gateshead and Whickham Swimming Club is celebrating its best ever performance at the recent North East Region Age Group Short Course Championships. The Club won 23 medals and finished third overall behind City of Bradford and Borough of Stockton Star of the team was twelve year old Ryan Zhao. Ryan won nine gold medals, and […]

A great performance at the recent North East Region Short Course Championships which resulted in Gateshead and Whickham Swimming Club winning 23 medals and finished third overall behind City of Bradford and Borough of Stockton AGE GROUP 11-13 NER SHORT COURSE CHAMPIONSHIPS Gold Ryan Zhao x9 (12Y) – 50FS, 100FS, 200FS, 50BK, 100BK, 200BK, 50BS, 100IM, 200IM […]

As the November NER Short Course Championships are nearly upon us it occurred to me that a review of the Long Course Championships (Held in May) was well overdue. May’s Age Group Championships witnessed a great many of our A and B Squad swimmers travel to Sheffield on consecutive weekends to race against the top […]